Paradise in Disguise at Locust Grove Farm

Paradise in Disguise at Locust Grove Farm Paradise in Disguise at Locust Grove Farm is located on a 100-year family farm in a gorgeous river valley in Delaware County, NY. Rabbits for meat or pets.

A 95yr old family farm where we’re breeding heritage chickens; a few ducks, turkeys, guinea hens, rabbits, hair sheep, & 1 goat.

2026 Breeds:
BBS Copper Marans
Multi-Gen OEs
Legbars
Heritage Barred Rock
Catskill Homesteader Chickens
BLR Wyandottes
Orloff We offer chicken hatching and eating eggs, various breeds of chicks, pullets & cockerels. Pasture-raised meat from chickens, sheep, goats & occa

sionally ducks, turkeys or geese. Plus, we have a family milk cow and raise beef for ourselves. Brother-in-law raises pigs on the farm, too.

09/11/2026

Frank and his brother Alan got the hay done! ✅ 👏 One thing off the list of a “thousand to-do’s”!

09/11/2026

Hilarious! 🤣

Pretty pullet eggs! Got the first two dark brown eggs from this year’s pullets (likely BCM or “failed” multi-gen OE) ! T...
09/10/2026

Pretty pullet eggs! Got the first two dark brown eggs from this year’s pullets (likely BCM or “failed” multi-gen OE) !
Though I’ve discontinued our pure BCM line, these will probably go in our future “Rainbow Egg Layer” flock. The tentative goal is any of the hens or roosters that don’t fit our breeding goals, will go into a separate coop for primarily our eating egg customers. But since we usually have an abundance of “extra roosters”, I’ll probably keep a few in with them, potentially offering them as Rainbow hatching eggs.
I really like the look of the BLRW x Legbar roosters, but again they carry the blue plumage gene, so not compatible with any “autosexing or sexlink” projects pens.

The Silver Ameraucana and Mossy Meadows eggs from Sunshine Meadows Homestead that shipped 8/31, arrived yesterday 9/8 & ...
09/10/2026

The Silver Ameraucana and Mossy Meadows eggs from Sunshine Meadows Homestead that shipped 8/31, arrived yesterday 9/8 & immediately went in the incubator. (USPS messed up and I should have had it sent Express, not Priority! 😑). I’m hoping that some will still hatch.
I tried adding some foam from the packaging for the eggs that jiggled in the trays a little bit.

Then, today, I set as many eggs as possible that I have been saving up from my flock! 😬🫠 Like 7 trays worth !
But, I washed them in water and sprayed them with hydrogen peroxide. Though I might order some Oxine to use for next year. Because I want to make sure no Mareks “shedding” dander stays on the egg shells. Even if it reduces the hatch rate slightly.

Yes, it’s a lot of eggs and potential chicks, but then I have a head start on vaccinated chickens for next year’s production.

However, I should have extra CHICKS 🐣 available IF someone wants to raise out some chicks for spring layers, NOW is the time ! As in, they would have to be picked up in about 3 weeks and raised in YOUR brooder.

Last time I deep cleaned the GQF cabinet incubators, I took the top off. But someone said they took the back off so I tr...
09/08/2026

Last time I deep cleaned the GQF cabinet incubators, I took the top off. But someone said they took the back off so I tried that and it’s the way to go! I can blow out the electrical components and then disinfect with bleach water the rest.

I’m also washing the eggs from my flock (gasp! 😮) that I will be incubating to remove any dust or dander from any Mareks positive hens. So it’s kinda an experiment since I’ve always heard that you never wash eggs before incubation, but come to find out, some do including commercial hatcheries!

I was too tired today to do much, nor write a post that I was going to. Instead, my body feels like it’s not liking the ...
09/08/2026

I was too tired today to do much, nor write a post that I was going to. Instead, my body feels like it’s not liking the change of weather that comes with fall. 🫠
But Frank helped his brother bale hay for our animals, so that’s great!

09/06/2026

These broody raised chicks are thriving so far! They are definitely from the Tolbunt Polish rooster with their little bouffant hair do’s that are coming in. 😂

Do you have a breed that you keep trying to acquire, but keep falling short of reaching the goal? For me, that’s pure Am...
09/05/2026

Do you have a breed that you keep trying to acquire, but keep falling short of reaching the goal? For me, that’s pure Ameraucanas, specifically the Silver variety which is very rare.

I should have known better than to think USPS would be “reliable” 2 times in a row. Hatching eggs shipped Monday morning and they are sitting at the Syracuse, NY distribution center, likely until Tuesday! (And I don’t think they allow pickup from there.)
The previous shipment from the same breeder, via USPS shipped Monday and arrived Friday morning . And I had a great hatch rate with those compared to the UPS ones. (The UPS ones typically arrived late Thursday evening after being on the delivery truck since the early morning.)
Maybe I need to find someone closer to Oneonta, NY that gets UPS deliveries in the morning vs one of the last stops! 😩
Or I just need to tell myself that after hundreds spent trying to get Silver Ameraucanas via 4-5 dozen hatching eggs and not even enough for one PAIR, maybe it’s not meant to be. (Yes, I did hatch around 20+ chicks, but between multiple issues and losses, I’m down to TWO roosters and one is not good enough to use for breeding 😭 .)

This isn’t anything against the breeders, because if anything, with such a small gene pool, it’s probably hard to find unrelated lines. And the one batch, it was my fault that I lost the entire hatch. 😭 But I’m not sure why the other hatches, not many survived while in the brooder.

The main reason I wanted them was because of their silver duckwing feather pattern, in combination with their beards, blue eggs and pea combs. The other more common feather patterns, however, are not compatible with the breeding goals I have.

I have debated with the possibility of just ordering “Easter Eggers” from a hatchery but because they don’t have a standard feather pattern, I would probably have to get like 100+ chicks and only keep the ones that are “close” to what I’m looking for and then breed multiple generations to try to w**d out the undesirable traits.

Pullet eggs from the last two days! 👀 I would say there’s some pretty cool blues, greens and olives. I think the white, ...
09/05/2026

Pullet eggs from the last two days! 👀 I would say there’s some pretty cool blues, greens and olives. I think the white, cream and light brown eggs are from the “Fun Pen” offspring and maybe the Barred Rock/ Red Ranger cross, but I’m not sure if they have started laying yet.

09/03/2026

Even though some days are harder than others, I am still grateful for the life we have! Because it’s what I prayed for and dreamed of for so many years!

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De Lancey, NY

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 7pm
Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 10am - 4:30pm
Sunday 3pm - 7pm

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(607) 746-8028

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